Location Based Services - Reconnecting Excluded Communities and Lifelong Learning - RECALL

Actonym: RECALL
Key Activity 3: ICT
Start: 01/10/2009
End: 30/09/2012
Duration: 36 months
URL: www.recall-project.eu

Target group:
- people with learning disabilities – UK and GR
- people with physical disabilities and sensory impairments – RO
- people with mobility impairments - BG


General Overview: This project will develop location based services in assistive technologies to allow people with learning disabilities and sensory impairments to plan and independently carry out their route to work and community activities to overcome physical and psychological barriers to independent travel and community inclusion. This reconnection to work and community and reengagement in active citizenship will significantly increase the personal fulfillment in a multiply disadvantaged and excluded group.

Three modes of RECALL will be implemented and tested which allows our target audience to plan, rehearse and then actually reconnect with learning, employment and other community opportunities. This approach combines location based services with games based learning approaches. The Plan mode promotes User Created Content and allows RECALL to be personalised to users’ needs. The Challenge mode uses games based learning approaches and context awareness to engage users in rehearsing, reflecting on and reinforcing the ways in which they have planned their reconnection with these opportunities. The Usage mode also offers self directed learning opportunities by specifying and personalising the key community and road safety messages that they require to be triggered by location. RECALL is an application developed for the Android Operating System and will be specified in English, Bulgarian, Greek and Romanian

Main impact: to develop lifelong learning skills of: route planning, memory, concentration, stress management, time-management & understanding targets and deadlines.

Partners: 6 (UK (3), BG, RO, GR)